if obama wins, the senator will fight the kind of tax deal boehner wants as part of a grand budget compromise. syme to glad the finger pointing has begun without any kind of actual deal on the table. >> look, i think that's kind of silly from "the journal." chuck schumer and democrats are going to go along with what president obama ultimately wants to do. yes, there will be a break or a curve on how far the president goes in some areas, but he's going to be calling the shots on this, and it's clear that he wants a deal and that he's willing to give up some of the things that democrats have been trying to protect for a long time like the sanctity of the entitlement programs as they now exist in order to get it. and then the question's going to be, if you can get some revenue from the republican side, that means tax increases, you're going to get entitlement cuts from the democratic side. and then you're bargaining over the price. >> sam, john brings up a very good point. we've talked about this. the president is willing to go there on some of these entitlement programs. and the expectation is